Perhaps the most famous enclave of all Morocco, and without a doubt, the nerve center of Marrakech, class Jemaa El Fna, It will surprise you with its enormous dimensions despite being located in the center of the city. Medina, a true network of alleys and passageways.
When Marrakech visits and you move around historic medina, all routes will converge to the class Jemaa El Fna, which with an elongated shape extends from the great spiritual center of the city, the great tower, or minaret, of the Koutoubia Mosque.
Name Jemaa El Fna has a meaning of Assembly o meeting, which is due to the fact that in the past this place was a large sand pit where the bodies and severed heads of the executed were displayed.
During your tourist stay in Marrakech, you will visit this square during the day, when you want to get lost in the incredible swarm of shops that is the Souk adjacent to the square.
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This is the experience of visiting Jemaa El Fna Square
But I can tell you that you will also visit it at night, when the square, in an incredible transformation, completely changes scene and is filled with chiringuitos where people gather to dine.
Therefore, when you are already in Marrakech, and you have minimally settled into the special rhythm of life of this city, adequately plan your various visits to the square Jemaa El Fna to be able to enjoy its different environments.
During the morning, the large movement of people in the square is also disturbed by the continuous wandering of cars, motorcycles and bicycles, so you have to be very careful when moving around this large esplanade to avoid being run over by someone. vehicle.
The shops surrounding the square already show a great atmosphere.
A must see is upload to any of the viewpoints that restaurants and cafes have that surround the square to, with the panoramic views of it, be able to contemplate the continuous bustle that there is in it.
Furthermore, the call to prayer from the loudspeakers of the various mosques that are distributed throughout the class Jemaa El Fna from Marrakech They cause a constant movement of parishioners through it.
When you walk through the square throughout the day, you move under the sound of the flute of the snake charmers.
Or between monkey trainers and other exotic characters such as water bearers or denture sellers.
And always with the invitation to have a fresh orange juice or dates at one of the numerous sales stands that are distributed throughout the square.
In the middle of the afternoon you are surprised by the arrival of a whirlwind of wagons with metal structures.
This is Jemaa El Fna at night
You will soon realize that with that chaos, like every day of the year, at sunset a large beach bar area of food, where very soon you will see the smoke coming out of the mobile kitchens prepared to feed the thousands of people who throughout the night will come to Dine in Jemaa El Fna Square.
The whirlwind of the beach bars, and the smell that emanates from them, will be a hard-to-avoid invitation to sit in one of them to enjoy popular preparations.
Tu last walk through Jema El Fna After dinner you will possibly be accompanied by the music of one of the numerous events that are held in the square throughout the year, as the nerve center of the city.
In short, an essential experience to feel the atmosphere of a country like Morocco.
Finally, if you prefer to do this visit in a group with the company of a guide in spanish, here you have information about guided tours and excursions in Marrakech.
Jemaa el fna is without a doubt the most lively square I have found throughout the world. The amount of activities and stalls at night is really worth spending a few hours there...
Visiting February 2018. They want to charge you for even the air you breathe. Airport taxi Dh70 and they charge you Dh250. Snake charmers who want to charge you Dh400 for some photos, AND if you ask for an address, they can charge you Dh50.
But let's see...taxis have a rate of 70DAMS to the airport, in fact if you negotiate you can even lower it. Then if you hire transportation from the Riad the thing goes up to 200DAM (which in our case was 100DAMS per head, I don't see it as excessive either) and there they will pick you up at the riad and take your suitcases, etc. They are two different services. And both are remembered BEFORE the trip.
Asking for an address is quite risky, it is best to download a map to your phone and use GPS, if you do not have data or roaming is disabled
And snake charmers, monkeys and so on... what seems incredible to me is that Europeans, with the awareness we have towards animal abuse, continue to want to take photos with abused and domesticated animals.
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My disappointing experience, if you find that it is economical to dine in the square for €35 for two people. We sit down to eat a couple of skewers and they give you sauces, vegetable cous crus and water. Then in another place where we didn't want to sit, they insulted us.
People ask for more and more and you can't ask anything, if you want to give them 10 dh, which is one euro, they feel offended. What a fabric. Marrakech has changed in the last 10 years.
I really like Morocco, but I won't return to Marrakech.
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Well, I think the same as your bine for 5 days and I've had this for two nights and coming home is a terror. They demand that you pay them for everything, even for asking for a street and if you don't, they insult you. Today we walked with my son for 2 hours lost in the market that led us badly, a man who one by one took us to the square and left us in a neighborhood where there was not a single tourist, super far away he even wanted to hit another one, the taxi driver for 6 streets charged us 50 they said when for A lot of it was 20 and like that at the juice place they cost 4 they said and they charged us 20 they said we're leaving and I'll never come back